Can you give us any insight as to why the change happened? I think a lot of us feel like the 5 mana version is better, but obviously you guys have tested it and decided differently - I’d love to know why and what the thought process in these last minute balancing decisions is.
Any cards that create potentially huge game swings in the early to mid-game are a big risk to take. Even if that swing is unlikely to occur in the great majority of games, when it does it can feel impossible to come back from. We saw this to some degree with Barnes and to a similar degree with cards like Keleseth and Reno. The difference between this card coming down on T5 vs it coming down on T6 was the difference in the possibility of reasonable answer for a lot of decks.
Iksar
It's a (6) 5/4. This was the very last change we made to the set.
Iksar
Any cards that create potentially huge game swings in the early to mid-game are a big risk to take. Even if that swing is unlikely to occur in the great majority of games, when it does it can feel impossible to come back from. We saw this to some degree with Barnes and to a similar degree with cards like Keleseth and Reno. The difference between this card coming down on T5 vs it coming down on T6 was the difference in the possibility of reasonable answer for a lot of decks.